Hologram color filter, production method of the same hologram color filter and space light modulating apparatus using the same hologram color filter

• US 6,492,065 B2
• Filed: 12/04/1998
• Issued: 12/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Imaoka, Hirofumi, Shimizu, Shigeo, Nakagaki, Shintaro
• Primary Examiner(s): ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J
• Application Number:
  US09/205,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20010049061A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,467 Days
• Field of Search: 430/1, 430/2, 352/1, 352/3, 352/20, 352/22, 352/24, 352/15
• US Class Current: 430/2
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/203 having holographic or diffractive elements diffraction gratings per se G02B5/18; holographic elements per se G02B5/32; generating the spectrum using diffraction elements G01J3/18
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/32 Holograms used as optical elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133514 Colour filters
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133526 Lenses, e.g. microlenses or Fresnel lenses

Abstract

A thickness of each hologram lens for forming a hologram color filter is set so as to be smaller as the wavelength of light to be diffracted by each hologram lens is shorter. A thin plate glass layer is bonded to a surface of the hologram color filter such that it is in a firm contact therewith by adhesive agent and a sum of the thickness of the thin plate glass layer and thickness of the adhesive agent is smaller than the shortest focal length of the focal lengths in glass of a plurality of the hologram lenses. As a result, light diffracted and divided by the hologram color filter is focused on a picture element electrode of a corresponding color properly thereby eliminating deterioration of color reproduction due to mixing of colors. Further, upon production of the hologram color filter from hologram recording material, an influence of a fringe rotation is compensated.

Claims

1. A method for producing a transmission-type hologram lens for obliquely receiving light having a specific wavelength and outputting the light at a desired angle, the method comprising the steps of:

a first step for disposing an electron beam master in contact with and opposite to a hologram recording material formed on a glass substrate, the electron beam master being provided with an electron beam lattice generated by an electron beam;

a second step for irradiating exposure light at a predetermined angle from the electron beam master side to form a fringe pattern inclined to a plane of the hologram recording material by an interference between 0 order light which advances straight and primary order light diffracted by the electron beam lattice; and

a third step for performing heat development on the hologram recording material in which the fringe pattern is formed, the heat development causing a fringe rotation in which an inclination angle of the fringe pattern to the plane of the hologram recording material increases,

wherein the predetermined angle in the second step predictively includes an additional angle for decreasing the inclination angle of the fringe pattern by an angle to be increased by the fringe rotation in the third step to cancel the fringe rotation and obtain a desired inclination angle of the fringe pattern after the heat development.

2. A method for producing a transmission-type hologram lens according to claim 1, the desired angle of the light outputted from the hologram lens is perpendicular to the hologram lens.

3. A method for producing a transmission-type hologram color filter for diffracting and dispersing incident white light into lights of three primary colors of red(R), green(G) and blue(B) and outputting the lights at respective desired angles, the method comprising the steps of:

a first step for disposing an electron beam master for blue light in contact with and opposite to a hologram recording material for blue light formed on a glass substrate, the electron beam master for blue light being provided with an electron beam lattice for blue light generated by an electron beam;

a second step for irradiating exposure light at a predetermined angle from the electron beam master for blue light side to form a fringe pattern inclined to a plane of the hologram recording material for blue light by an interference between 0 order light which advances straight and primary order light diffracted by the electron beam lattice for blue light thereby to produce a hologram lens for blue light;

a third step for applying a hologram recording material for green light on the hologram recording material for blue light and disposing an electron beam master for green light provided with an electron beam lattice for green light in contact with the hologram recording material for green light;

a fourth step for irradiating exposure light at a predetermined angle from the electron beam master for green light side to form a fringe pattern inclined to a plane of the hologram recording material for green light by an interference between 0 order light which advances straight and primary order light diffracted by the electron beam lattice for green light thereby to produce a hologram lens for green light;

a fifth step for applying a hologram recording material for red light on the hologram recording material for green light and disposing an electron beam master for red light provided with an electron beam lattice for red light in contact with the hologram recording material for red light;

a sixth step for irradiating exposure light at a predetermined angle from the electron beam master for red light side to form a fringe pattern inclined to a plane of the hologram recording material for red light by an interference between 0 order light which advances straight and primary order light diffracted by the electron beam lattice for red light thereby to produce a hologram lens for red light; and

a seventh step for performing heat development on the respective hologram recording materials for blue light, green light and red light in which the fringe patterns are formed in the second, fourth and sixth steps, the heat development causing a fringe rotation in which an inclination angle of the fringe pattern to the plane of the hologram recording material increases,

wherein the predetermined angle in the second, fourth and sixth steps predictively includes an additional angle for decreasing the inclination angle of the fringe pattern by an angle to be increased by the fringe rotation in the seventh step to cancel the fringe rotation and obtain a desired inclination angle of the fringe pattern after the heat development.

4. A method for producing a transmission-type hologram color filter according to claim 3, the respective desired angles of the lights outputted from the hologram color filter are perpendicular to the hologram color filter.